As an artist, educator, and researcher, I seek connection by engaging in intra-actions that resonate deeply, by taking up chances to teach and heal with others, and by committing to the creative process as an emergent and responsive experience. My painting work comes from a deeply intuitive, and often philosophical, space where I am thinking-with-materials and engaging my environment in a co-creative, ritualized, manner. Currently my work is in the form of 2dimensional paintings, but has included mixed media and photography in the past.
I see the creative process as an active form of research that contributes to how we understand ourselves in relation to teaching, learning, and overall connectivity. In particular, my recent (2022-2023) work addresses the question of how rituals emerge through the creative process and how, when we continue to show up for ourselves, these emergent and repeated rituals might impact one's teaching and making practice. It investigates the potential for emergent rituals in art-making to alter or shift one's connection to environment, materials, others, and self as artist-educator.